ABSTRACT

Technologies such as artificial intelligence have led to significant advances in science and medicine, but have also facilitated new forms of repression, policing and surveillance. AI policy has become without doubt a significant issue of global politics.

The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence tackles some of the issues linked to AI development and use, contributing to a better understanding of the global politics of AI. This is an area where enormous work still needs to be done, and the contributors to this volume provide significant input into this field of study, to policy makers, academics, and society at large. Each of the chapters in this volume works as freestanding contribution, and provides an accessible account of a particular issue linked to AI from a political perspective. Contributors to the volume come from many different areas of expertise, and of the world, and range from emergent to established authors.

Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

chapter 1|28 pages

Threading Innovation, Regulation, and the Mitigation of AI Harm

Examining Ethics in National AI Strategies

chapter 2|28 pages

Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Emerging International Trends and Policy Frames

chapter 3|28 pages

Multilateralism and Artificial Intelligence

What Role for the United Nations?

chapter 6|16 pages

Vulnerability, AI, and Power in a Global Context

From Being-at-Risk to Biopolitics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

chapter 8|36 pages

Nomadic Artificial Intelligence and Royal Research Councils

Curiosity-Driven Research Against Imperatives Implying Imperialism

chapter 9|38 pages

Artificial Intelligence and Post-Capitalism

The Prospect and Challenges of AI-Automated Labour